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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Strachan, who is a member of the Board of the Alabama Science Teachers Association (ASTA), holds a doctorate in science education from Morgan State University; a Master of Secondary Education (biology) from Alabama A&M; and a B.S. in biology from Mount Allison University. We have an academic adviser.

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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The optimal construct, however, would be collaborative endeavors with concerned private institutions, which would benefit all parties involved. Supportive and sustainable pipeline programs.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the first programs he developed, iScholar, is an afterschool program that gives high school students the opportunity to collaborate on meaningful projects and speak to issues they identify with within their own communities. “I Gray began conducting youth programs when he arrived at North Carolina State as a professor in 2012.

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Research in Action: Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He also put a public focus on the plight that impacts Black males globally with the creation of the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education, which he still leads with his friend and longtime collaborator, Dr. James L. Moore III of The Ohio State University. Dr. Jerlando F.

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From Research and Theory Into Practice: hooks’ Homeplace Matters in the Educational Lives of Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In this special issue of Theory Into Practice , co-edited by Mayes (the first author herein), Kearl, and Ieva, the authors explain the need for homeplace and how it can improve the educational outcome and well-being of Black students. Family and school partnership to build homeplace and protect Black autistic joy. Theory into Practice.

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